It's always seemed odd to me that Lisp is mentioned with functional programming. Perhaps FP colloquially means 'effective but uncommon'?
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Sometimes programming tools are so good that you miss them when using other languages. I see these mentioned the most frequently:
* IntelliJ (for Java)
* Slime+Emacs (for Common Lisp)
* Pharo (for Smalltalk)
I'm struck that they all have bespoke UIs.
TIL that Rust has a (i) icon that shows relevant traits that a type implements. This is useful to understand that e.g. .iter() on a Vec<T> iterates with &T.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.iter
It looks like one of my bug reports was mentioned, so I'm delighted but wish I'd noticed earlier!
What's the threshold for politely pasting text in IRC channels? I pasted two lines and my client sternly warned me and mentioned pastebins.